2 Samuel 4:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They brought the head of Ishbaal to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ishbaal son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life; the Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”

Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29

If anyone should rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living under the care of the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

2 Samuel 22:48

the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Revelation 6:10

they cried out with a loud voice, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”

Matthew 2:20

“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

Psalm 71:24

All day long my tongue will talk of your righteous help, for those who tried to do me harm have been put to shame and disgraced.

2 Samuel 18:31

Then the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, “Good tidings for my lord the king! For the Lord has vindicated you this day, delivering you from the power of all who rose up against you.”

2 Samuel 18:19

Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Let me run and carry tidings to the king that the Lord has delivered him from the power of his enemies.”

1 Samuel 24:4

The men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.’ ” Then David went and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s cloak.

1 Samuel 23:15

David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh when he learned that Saul had come out to seek his life.

1 Samuel 20:1

David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came before Jonathan and said, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin against your father that he is trying to take my life?”

1 Samuel 19:15

Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

1 Samuel 18:11

and Saul threw the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

2 Samuel 2:8

But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbaal son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

1 Samuel 19:1

Saul spoke with his son Jonathan and with all his servants about killing David. But Saul’s son Jonathan took great delight in David.